The stupid thing about anger is how people hurt you and then you let them keep hurting you by being angry about how they originally hurt you. It's a vicious cycle. —Susane Colasanti in So Much Closer More about this quote Tags: hurt anger Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes, when you're sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, and you fall asleep with the salty taste of them on your lips. —Cornelia Funke in Inkheart More about this quote Tags: sadness tears anger Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My father . . . used to say, "I need my anger. It obliges me to take action." I think my father was partly right. Anger arises, naturally, to signal disturbing situations that might require action. But actions initiated in anger perpetuate suffering. The most effective actions are those conceived in the wisdom of clarity. —Sylvia Boorstein More about this quote Tags: action wisdom suffering anger clarity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? —Zora Neale Hurston More about this quote Tags: pleasure surprise anger discrimination denial Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am no longer afraid of anger. I find it to be a creative, transforming force; anger is a stage I must go though if I am ever to get to what lies beyond. —Mary Kaye Medinger More about this quote Tags: change transformation anger Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled. —Marshall B. Rosenberg More about this quote Tags: anger need fulfillment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others. —Harriet Lerner More about this quote Tags: anger challenge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The phrase "action speaks louder than words," is most easily proven by a swift kick to the genitals. —Devin J. Monroe More about this quote Tags: words anger actions kick Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you find yourself about to say something that crosses a line, something that could cause irreparable harm, sometimes the best you can do is just not say that thing. —Tammara Webber in Where You Are More about this quote Tags: silence speech anger Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Unlike women in other countries, our breaking silence is unlikely to have us jailed, "disappeared," or run off the road at night. Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or hypersensitive, and disrupt some dinner parties. And then our speaking out will permit other women to speak, until laws are changed and lives are saved and the world is altered forever. —Audre Lorde More about this quote Tags: freedom silence change anger disruption Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at? —Margaret Smith More about this quote Tags: death anger tombstone Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I couldn't forgive him. My anger was the only thing keeping me from hating myself. —Alyssa Rose Ivy in Derailed More about this quote Tags: self-hatred hatred anger Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger. —Norman Vincent Peale More about this quote Tags: mistakes past achievement worry anger smile Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Anger cannot be dishonest. —Marcus Aurelius More about this quote Tags: anger Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it. —Groucho Marx More about this quote Tags: humor violence anger brutality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email